Sad people dislike the happy and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate and the careless the busy and industrious.

It is not to be disguised that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace which they would effect is superficial false and temporary.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

Equipped with cell phones beepers and handheld computers the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime anywhere.